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N-Ways in Guinea-Bissau
Find any place in Guinea-Bissau.
Bissau, Bafatá, Gabú or the Bijagós: search a place or a business and N-Ways takes you to the door. The app speaks Portuguese here, menus, voice and voice commands included, and English or French if you prefer. It knows the Djakarta, the fares and the boat to Bubaque.
- Capital
- Bissau
- Money
- F CFA West African CFA franc
- Clock
- GMT UTC+0, all year
- Drives on the
- Right
- Language
- Portuguese Kriol is spoken by most
- Land borders open
- 08:00–18:00 Opening hours
What works in Guinea-Bissau
A map that speaks Portuguese.
N-Ways speaks Portuguese when your account starts in Guinea-Bissau or your phone is set to Portuguese. You can switch to English or French in Profile. Here's what you get on the roads and waters of Guinea-Bissau.
Search by name or Plus Code
Places, streets and businesses in all eight regions and Bissau. Search by the name of the place, or type a Plus Code to find any spot.
Em português
Spoken directions, lane arrows and road signs in Portuguese, voice commands such as “Quanto falta para Bissau?”, and the region on the map, like “Cacheu · Guiné-Bissau”.
Djakarta and fair fares
Choose Djakarta in Directions for a moto-taxi route. Getting there shows what a shared taxi or a toca-toca should cost in F CFA, as a rough guide.
The boat to the Bijagós
Choose Boat for the ship from Bissau's Pindjiguiti quay to Bubaque, with the walk to the quay. No timetable is published, so times are estimates.
Fuel in F CFA
Tell N-Ways your car once and every trip shows its litres and what they cost at the government's pump price.
Police and crash alerts
“Police ahead” from other drivers' reports, the Polícia Judiciária's duty line, and crash alerts that offer the emergency service on 112, the fire service on 118 and the police on 117.
Main cities
Bissau and the regional towns, from the coast to the east. Search any of them, or a street or business inside.
- Bissau Bissau
- Bafatá Bafatá
- Gabú Gabú
- Cacheu Cacheu
- São Domingos Cacheu
- Farim Oio
- Mansoa Oio
- Quinhamel Biombo
- Buba Quinara
- Catió Tombali
- Bolama Bolama-Bijagós
- Bubaque Bolama-Bijagós
Checked 18 October 2026. Sources: Languages of Guinea-Bissau, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (border hours, Polícia Judiciária), ARN (emergency numbers), IANA time zones.
Fares and boats
Know the price before you get in.
Bissau's taxis and minibuses have fares set by the government. N-Ways shows them next to your route, and plans the boat when the road ends.
- Shared taxi: 300 F CFA a seat in Bissau, the official fare since June 2022. The government barred fare rises when fuel went up in April 2026.
- Toca-toca: Bissau's minibuses, 200 F CFA a ride officially.
- Between towns: the official rate is 19 F CFA a kilometre.
- Bissau–Bubaque: the state ship Centenário de Amílcar Cabral takes about four hours. It sails about once a week, more at Easter and on holidays, when it is often overcrowded.
Checked 18 October 2026. Sources: O Democrata (fare table, June 2022), News Central (April 2026), Capital News (Bubaque ship), O Democrata (Easter sailings), Bubaque.
Codes
A code for every morança, in every sector.
The name of your bairro or tabanca and a short number, unique in the whole country: Bandim 537 leads a courier, a taxi or an ambulance to your gate. Codes start provisional and are confirmed by the people who live there.
Open N-Ways at home, tap Get my code, and share it in one tap.
Get my code Read the research paper
For developers: look codes up, find the code at a point or decode them with the home codes API guide. No key is needed.
Host it yourself: every code, the areas, the engine and a ready-made server are open at github.com/n-ways/open-addresses-guinea-bissau, free to run on your own servers under their licences (data ODbL 1.0, engine Apache 2.0). Credit when you use it: N-Ways Addressing for Guinea-Bissau, © N-WAYS LIMITED (nways.ng)
BissauBorders with Senegal and Guinea
Cross in daylight, with the papers ready.
N-Ways names the border post in your steps, says whether you stop once or twice, and lists the papers to bring.
- São Domingos–Mpack on the road from Bissau to Ziguinchor: separate posts. Since 12 August 2026, buses and taxis no longer run straight through: passengers change at the border.
- Pitche–Foulamory and Buruntuma–Kandika in the east: separate posts.
- Hours: the land borders open from 08:00 to 18:00, and close on voting days, as they did for the referendum of 30 August 2026.
- Bring a passport or ECOWAS travel certificate, a yellow fever card, and for the car its papers and an ECOWAS Brown Card.
Checked 18 October 2026. Sources: O Democrata (Bissau–Ziguinchor transport), O Democrata (referendum closure), UK travel advice (yellow fever), ECOWAS Brown Card.
What N-Ways does in Guinea-Bissau
Every screen here is the real app in Guinea-Bissau. Swipe through each row.
Find what’s near
Pharmacies around Bissau, with their opening hours.
Right to the door
The last metres on foot, to the entrance of Mercado de Bandim.
Turn-by-turn in Bissau
Every turn called with the street’s own name, on Bissau’s roads.
Potholes, lane by lane
Know which lane the pothole is in before you reach it, across Bissau.
Police ahead
Other drivers’ reports warn you before a checkpoint in Bissau.
Your rights in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau’s emergency numbers and where to report misconduct, one tap away.
Ask while you drive
“How far to Quinhamel?” Tap the mic and ask, in English or French.
Maps without data
Save the Bissau map area once and it works with no signal.
What it fixes for you, free.
The everyday problems of getting around, and what N-Ways does about each. No subscription, no account needed.
“Call me when you reach the junction.”
Addresses that don’t exist on any map. Search a postcode, a digital address or a landmark, and N-Ways walks you to the door.
See howData finished halfway there.
Save the map for offline use and keep going with no signal. It tidies itself when storage is short.
See how
Works with Apple CarPlay.
Connect your iPhone and N-Ways opens on your car’s screen: the same map and voice as on the phone, with big buttons made for driving. A trip you started on the phone carries on in the car.
The next turn onto Ikorodu Road with its green road sign, fuel for the trip in litres and the arrival time.
The map turns dark when your car switches to night.
Each route’s time and distance before you set off, then Go.
Bad road ahead, in time to slow down.
Places, businesses and postcodes, picked from a list.
Look around, then one tap brings the map back to the car.
Shown on a drive in Lagos.
- Turn by turn
- The distance, the road’s name and its green sign, and on iOS 18 the lane to be in.
- Spoken directions
- Through the car’s speakers, turning your music down while it talks.
- Warned in time
- Potholes, bad road, crashes, traffic lights, tolls and borders ahead. “Still there?” takes one tap.
- Find your way there
- Places, businesses and addresses, or Home, Work and your recent trips.
- Pick your route
- Time and distance for each before you go, and a faster way offered on the road.
- Report from the wheel
- Crash, police, traffic, roadworks, hazard or closure, from six big buttons.
Part of the N-Ways app for iPhone. You need an iPhone and a car with CarPlay.
Also on iPhone, in testing: your next turn, the road sign and your lane on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Your trips, your data.
Your trips stay yours
We don’t sell where you go, and ads never get your trip history.
No account needed
Search and drive without signing in. Sign in only to keep places and points on another phone.
Recordings stay on your phone
A checkpoint video is never uploaded unless you choose to back it up.
Delete it all
Remove your account and everything in it at any time. Privacy policy
Building an app for Guinea-Bissau?
The N-Ways Maps Platform: the maps, address search and routes behind the app, as APIs and SDKs for the web, Android and iOS. Free calls every month, then prices in your own currency.
Your business, on the road to it.
A short billboard shows to drivers heading your way, only when they’re stopped or slow, never near a turn. Pay for the days you choose.
Questions about N-Ways in Guinea-Bissau
How do I find an address in Bissau?
Search by the name of the place, street or business, or type a Plus Code to find any spot. N-Ways covers all eight regions and Bissau, from Bafatá and Gabú to Cacheu and the Bijagós.
Does N-Ways speak Portuguese in Guinea-Bissau?
Yes: menus, spoken directions and voice commands such as “Quanto falta para Bissau?”. It speaks Portuguese when your account starts in Guinea-Bissau or your phone is set to Portuguese, and you can switch to English or French in Profile.
How much is a taxi in Bissau?
A shared taxi is 300 F CFA a seat, the official fare since June 2022, and a toca-toca minibus is 200 F CFA a ride; between towns the official rate is 19 F CFA a kilometre. Choose Djakarta in Directions for a moto-taxi route.
How do I get to Bubaque?
By the state ship Centenário de Amílcar Cabral from Bissau’s Pindjiguiti quay: about four hours, about once a week, more at Easter and on holidays, when it is often overcrowded. Choose Boat in Directions; no timetable is published, so times are estimates.
When are Guinea-Bissau’s land borders open?
From 08:00 to 18:00, and they close on voting days, as they did for the referendum of 30 August 2026. São Domingos–Mpack, on the road from Bissau to Ziguinchor, has separate posts, and since 12 August 2026 passengers change buses or taxis at the border. Pitche–Foulamory and Buruntuma–Kandika, in the east, have separate posts. Bring a passport or ECOWAS travel certificate, a yellow fever card, and for the car its papers and an ECOWAS Brown Card.
Does N-Ways warn about police in Guinea-Bissau?
Yes: “Police ahead” from other drivers’ reports, and the Polícia Judiciária’s duty line.
What number do I call after a crash in Guinea-Bissau?
112 for the emergency service, 118 for the fire service and 117 for the police. N-Ways’s crash alerts offer all three.
Is there a free GPS app that works offline in Guinea-Bissau?
N-Ways is free, and it can save a city for when there’s no signal; maps you stop using tidy themselves away when your phone runs low on space. The map works in your browser at map.nways.ng.
Where are you going in Guinea-Bissau today?
Type a place or a business. N-Ways does the rest, in Portuguese, English or French.